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Working in marketing has made me (sadly) realize these articles are meaningless. Articles like this don't mean the recommended brands are the best. It just mean
by rwilson4 5y ago
Working in marketing has made me (sadly) realize these articles are meaningless. Articles like this don't mean the recommended brands are the best. It just means those brands paid to be recommended.
- pieno 5y agoWirecutter is owned by the New York Times Company and explicitly says they don’t get paid by manufacturers (except through affiliate links to Amazon) and recommendations are purely based on editorial testing. NYTCo really can’t afford to lie about editorial independence, particularly for something that’s not even their core business. Quote from their site: > We work with total editorial independence. That means nothing appears on the site as a recommendation unless our writers and editors have deemed it the best through our rigorous reporting and testing.